161k GitHub stars in 4 months with 65 lines of Markdown

Mehdi (DevRel) and Dumky (Developer Experience) at MotherDuck run through ~10 links from the world of data and AI. This one keeps circling back to a single theme: as AI makes everything easier to produce, the hard part becomes telling the real signal from the slop, whether that's music, GitHub stars, or your data warehouse answers.

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• 0:00 — Intro
• 0:43 — AI slop on Spotify?
• 6:00 — A skill file with 161k GitHub stars
• 11:30 — Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
• 17:00 — GitHub Actions are the new email scam
• 24:00 — The chat box is dying
• 30:00 — Slow tech: Kindle, TRMNL, Fitbit
• 37:00 — From Vibes to Evals
• 43:00 — The AI paradox (via Lenny's Podcast)
• 51:40 — Wrap up